Tempature: 68F
Humidity: 82%
Pressure: 30.08 in.
Overcast and slight drizzle of rain.

My lower back has been giving me a lot of trouble all week, knotted muscles or something. So I didn’t get out much expt like a little 15 min hike here an there. I had invited my friend Bob C. up to a few of my local areas to have a look around and see if we could find anything and our main target was Box turtles. I had an area from alst year I wanted to check out, though my back told me NO, I decided not to make that climb and just check out some other areas for other things.

Well about 30 mins in to our walk though a part were there are some pools and wetland areas and checking out some ravine and spotted habitat I saw what we were looking for.

Male eastern box turtle:

Bob:

Other Stuff encountered:
Spotted Salamander (same as before)
2 Ravine Salamanders
10+ Bull Frog Tads
Peepers Calling
1 DOR Garter

Meet up wit Bob C. today at 9:30 to do some things for a exhibit tommorow at one of the local colleges. Had a pretty good time there. Then we were definatly in herp mode today and took a trip a little more south to Fayette County.

Hit a few spots myself and John have been to a few times. Lost time for two hours then we desided to check on the copperhead population that everyone knows exist but noone I know has ever seen one. Good thing Bob was there cause I would have never found them where they were. But it was alot of searching to find one then we were on a roll.

Westmoreland County
10+ Redbacks Salamander
10+ Twolineds Salamander
5+ Northern Duskys Salamander
5+ Mtn. Duskys Salamander
2 Slimy Salamander

3 Pickerel Frogs
5+ Green Frogs

Fayette County
10 + Green Frogs

5+ Twolineds Salamander
1 Seal Salamander
5+ Redbacks Salamander
5+ Mtn Duskys Salamander
1 Slimy Salamander
1 Newt
4 unided Ambystoma Resently transformed (maybe spotteds will see)

1 Garter snake- Bob
1 Queen snake- Bob
3 Copperhead -Only two photographed* Have to give bob credit for these.
1 Copperhead Shed
1 Garter Shed
3 Queen Sheds

Bob Looking for the “Poisonous snakes” The Sign told us about. LOL

Copperhead Shed - I think we are getting warmer-

Bob saw this a little ways down - Copper 1

Copper 2

Little Queen that Bob caught

Giant Slimy

Newt

Unided Ambystoma

Pickerel

Green Frog

Yeah I know. Havnt seen me post any of these in a while. I did find one here an there and me and kyra found one last weekend but i didnt post it.
Slowly starting to see some activity again.

Here are two found under a rock.

Adult found under a peice of metal.

Another juvi

An another juvi emerging from tunnel.

A rather successful day. I was scheduled to meet up with one of my herping buddies, but we had to reschedule for next week, so off I went to one of the local spots to see if a group of Ravines were out and about. Was getting late so I decided not to stay to long and just flip a rock or two. The 1st rocks I flip was a Spotted Salamander *Lifer.  Not really expecting to see one around this area and I gave up on finding them at this area awhile back after checking the vernal pools a few times on the other side of the ridge. I was quite content, but decided to search a little longer with no other results. I think my itinerary may have changed for the weekend.

Time:7:00PM
Air Temps-73f
Ground Temps-66f
Clear skies.

Spotted Salamander - 5.5cm

Till next time. Happy Herping.

Went to do a normal routine check of a Ravine Salamander spot and was going to pass though and try a new location, but I desided to do a little flipping around the Ravine spot first and with the 1st rock I flipped a Longtailed Salamander *Lifer. As much as I have researched this area the longtail was far from my mind of finding today. So I set up to take a photo…. Then my camera says No CF card. AH I left it at home. Now what? So I run back to the house grab my card and come back to take a few photos. Supriced by this find I started searching the area and came up with another longtail not far from the first one. Two in one day not bad for a lifer.

77F Cloudy

2 - Longtail Salamanders ****Lifer
5+ Northern Dusky Salamanders
1 Slimy Salamander
2 American Toads

Slimy:

Longtail one - 6.5cm

Longtail two - 12 cm

9 Pickerel Frogs
1 Northern Lepoard Frog
5+ Green Frogs

Pickerel Frogs

Northern Lepoard Frog

Myself and Bob C. meet up in Westmoreland County PA this evening for our targer species Northern Leopard Frogs. The 1st thing we spotted was a Pickerel and with in about 10 mins we finally caught it after it got away 10 diffrent times and hid under 3 diffrent logs.. We also saw another but were unable to get a photo. We also grabbed a Wood frog the 1st eaither of us have seen with in the area. And also a Mystery Snake which looked like a Earth Snake but far out of range. We will work the area again to determin this species at a later date.

For today:
5 Green Frogs
2 Pickerel Frogs
3 American Toads
1 Wood Frog
20+ Mtn Dusky Salamanders
5+ Northern Dusky Salamanders 1 with eggs
3 Twolined Salamanders
1 Slimy Salamander
1 Mystery Snake

Pickerel Frog

Wood Frog

A. Toad

Slimy Salamander

N. Dusky With eggs

Just a few shots from the past few days.

Queen snakes

Painted Turtle:

Northern Waters:

DOR Rat Snake

Small American Toad